50. And whoever shall not do according to the word of the king, he shall die.
51. According to all these words wrote he to his whole kingdom; and he appointed overseers over all the people, and he commanded the cities of Judah to sacrifice, city by city.
52. And from the people were gathered together to them many, every one that had forsaken the law; and they did evil things in the land;
53. and they made israel to hide themselves in every place of refuge which they had.
54. And on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the hundred and forty and fifth year, they builded an abomination of desolation upon the altar, and in the cities of Judah on every side they builded idol altars.